Ernst Chain

Ernst Chain (19 June 1906-12 August 1979) was a German-British biochemist and the co-recipient of the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.

Biography
Ernst Chain was born in Berlin, German Empire in 1906, and he received his degree in chemistry from Friedrich Wilhelm University in 1930. On 2 April 1933, he emigrated to the United Kingdom following the Nazi seizure of power, and, in 1935, he became a lecturer in pathology at Oxford University. During World War II, he researched penicillin, which became the Allied "miracle drug" during the Southeast Asia campaign. He was the co-recipient of the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin, and he died in Castlebar, Ireland in 1979.